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Bad Experience with Interactive Brokers - Please Save Yourself the Headache & Avoid Them!
Just wanted to put this out there for anyone considering Interactive Brokers, especially newer or retail traders. I’ve been using IB for a while now and honestly, the \*\*customer service alone is reason enough to stay away\*\*. \*\*Customer support is practically nonexistent\*\* \* Phone support is a joke. You can’t …
Regretting not having cash during the dip, but hate selling my winners.
I’ve been investing in tech company for a long time and luckily, I’ve seen some pretty solid gains. Right now, I keep a few months' worth of salary in my savings account as an emergency fund, but everything else is fully invested in the market. The problem is, whenever we …
Tips for researching startups?
This is an absolutely "hear me out" post and yes, the majority of my account is in SPY and various sector ETFs managed by the likes of Fidelity/Blackrock. But if you buy early-stage companies with big contracts, potential to be useful in multiple sectors or regions, or final clinical studies …
Quantum Computing themes are up today
today is world quantum day (april 14, tied to planck's constant 4.14×10⁻¹⁵ eV·s, yes really) and the market is treating it like a genuine catalyst. the quantum computing theme is the top gainer on bullsmeet's trending themes today at +8.48%. what's moving: QBTS is up close to 11%, pushing above …
What are some offbeat market indicators?
I don't mean elephant migration patterns or the price of butter in Tajikistan or whatever other voodoo nonsense some technical "analysts" use. I mean consumer-level things like Dorito sales falling while store brand cool ranch chips are sold out or the secondary market in a particular luxury watch brand seeing …
Why is the market ripping?
Far from any resolution to the conflict...and even if it did happen today oil supply chains are fucked for 6 months to a year. Layoffs and frozen hiring everywhere. Inflation creeping everywhere. Pending AI takeover of entry level to mid level jobs. Dont get me wrong...as a long term buy …
When buying a house, good idea to sell stocks to help with a larger down payment?
I’m looking to build a house by the end of this year and hoping to grow my HYSA a bit more and I could probably put at least 20% but I would have limited savings left I treat my brokerage account as something I don’t touch unless absolutely necessary. I …
Real estate or stock market investment
Has anyone done a serious DEEP financial analysis on if you had a little bit of money is it better to put it in the stock market S&P 500 or to buy real estate? I'm talking about what strategy would give you more of a larger return which I know …
I work, wife stays at home, can we both do Roth-IRA's?
I work a full time job, my wife stays home and raises our children. Are we allowed to both have separate Roth-IRA accounts that are fully funded each year (7,000-7,500)? Household income is about $95k Not looking for financial advice, just making sure we are allowed to do this. Thanks …
If you had 100k- low risk
If you had 100k to invest….what would you do with it? I need this to be low risk. I’m not looking to gamble on something that could make me a million dollars in a year or lose it all. No crypto. I have a 600k mortgage at 6%, a couple …